On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:11:23PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote: [...] > are there any OSes where the serial API actually hid the UART(s) and > wasn't so hateful?
I don't recall AmigaOS's API being particularly hateful: it was effectively a character device with some OOB commands to set the parameters. Now, the serial *hardware* on the other hand...